Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope
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Title
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope
Subject
The correspondence Byron wrote and some of which he received during the tour.
Description
"Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839)was the daughter of the earl of Stanhope and the niece of William Pitt, for whom she had kept house. Brilliant, eccentric, and romantic, she traveled to the Levant in 1810 and ultimately established herself in a ruinous convent on Mount Lebanon, where she resided among the natives for the rest of her life." BB 39n
Creator
Paul M Curtis
Source
Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. London: John Murray 1973–94.
Peter S Cochran's website: https://petercochran.wordpress.com/byron-2/byron/
Graham, Peter W. Byron's Bulldog. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1984.
Peter S Cochran's website: https://petercochran.wordpress.com/byron-2/byron/
Graham, Peter W. Byron's Bulldog. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1984.
Publisher
The Byron Online Project: http://byrononlineproject.com/
Date
13 April 2014
Contributor
Paul M Curtis
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License.
Relation
David Radcliffe's "Lord Byron and his Times:"
http://www.lordbyron.org/
http://www.lordbyron.org/
Language
English
Type
Person
Coverage
English Romanticism, George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, 1788-1824; 1809-1811
Person Item Type Metadata
Birth Date
1776-03-12
Birthplace
Chevening, Kent
Death Date
1839-06-23 at Dar Jun
Occupation
traveller
Bibliography
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26247
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Citation
Paul M Curtis, “Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope,” ByronOnlineProject, accessed April 20, 2024, https://byrononlineproject.com/items/show/542.
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- Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, from Patras, October 4th 1810 (50) [Person Mentions]
- Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, from the Volage frigate, at Sea, June 19th 1811 (77) [Person Mentions]